A confidential mastermind for mothers of young children who work as investors in venture capital and private equity: for caring about showing up as the best version of you as an investment leader, and the version of you caring at 2am for your other children.
This is not about choosing between the fund and the family. It is about building the judgment, the language, and the peer group to hold both, without pretending one does not affect the other.
Careers in venture capital and private equity are demanding by definition. Long hours and travel are a given, and things like carry and the promotion path depend largely on the fund you work at. With no standard to measure against, it is harder to plan for the years when you are both an investor and a mother. It can feel overwhelming, especially early on, and it can feel unsafe to talk about it at all.
This is a room for that conversation, with women in the same situation who want honest discussion and practical answers. We cover the guilt, the logistics and the identity shift too. You leave knowing what you can change, what you can accept, and what to ask for.
Wherever you are between maternity leave and the Partner track.
Each theme surfaces through the real decisions you bring to the room.
Renegotiate ambition and visibility after leave without starting over. Reclaim your pipeline, your deal credit and your place in the partner conversation.
Handle travel, board seats, and deal flow on terms that work for your life and career.
Name and ask for the flexibility you need without it reading as reduced commitment, and keep evening and travel boundaries without apologising.
Talk plainly about carry, compensation, and the financial reality of a career interruption.
Build your own model of what ‘senior investor and present mother’ looks like, including what to outsource, what to protect and what to let go.
Make space for the identity shift, the guilt, and the parts of this no LP deck ever mentions.
Every two weeks, confidential conversations grounded in the real decisions in front of you right now.
Personalised support to work through your specific situation between sessions.
Senior investors and parents who have built a version of this that works for them. Hear how they negotiated leave, carry and travel, and what they would do differently.
A trusted network of mothers navigating the same stage, in the same industry.
Practical scripts for negotiating leave, flexibility, and travel, not just theory.
Because some of this can’t be said at the fund, and shouldn’t have to wait for a hallway conversation.
Three months with enough space for relationships and individual choices to develop. The cohort starts on 12 January 2027.
A VC with 15+ years of venture experience, founder of The VC Coach, and facilitator of multiple peer mastermind groups combining investment expertise with a human-centered coaching approach. A loving and involved auntie, she has watched too many senior female investors, peers and friends, leave the industry because they could not see how to combine it with the family life they wanted. She built this circle to help them build a sustainable career and personal life. One day a week she is Operating Partner at Borski Fund, investing in female founders to narrow the gender investment gap and aiming to co-invest more alongside female GPs and LPs.
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15 years across banking, entrepreneurship and venture capital in five countries. After building a food company in Brazil, she moved into early-stage VC, backing health, agri and food-tech companies. Today she advises senior women in finance, consulting, tech and law on redesigning careers that no longer fit, including women returning from maternity leave into demanding investing roles. She is writing a book on the subject. Mother of two young children, she knows the 2am version of this firsthand.
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“I want to stay visible in my network without giving up every evening at home.”
“It’s not enough for colleagues to say they’re supportive. I need that support to work in practice.”
“Setting boundaries isn’t a one-time conversation. You have to keep making them clear, and having clear tools for that really helps.”
“I’d value a programme that gives me something practical to use, not just a place to talk about the challenges.”
“The professional network may not be the main reason to join, but the connections you build could become a valuable bonus.”
“This program is especially interesting because of its international character and the fact that I can do it when my child is in bed, in the comfort of my own home.”
Participation is by application and conversation. We curate for trust, readiness, and alignment.
You are not choosing between the fund and the family. You are building an aligned way to do both, on your own terms.
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